The Tenerife Council presented yesterday the documentary Pink Triangles, a pioneering audiovisual piece on the Island that seeks to make visible the reality of the trans collective. With an approximate duration of ninety minutes, the filming tells in first person the long process that Terri León, Dona Hernández and Marcela Rodríguez suffered to be accepted in times of dictatorship and repression.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martin, valued this recording as a benchmark of respect for diversity, advocating that Tenerife be an island that vindicates the transgender population to achieve their full inclusion in addition to rejecting any type of hatred. The island leader dedicated aA special mention to Dona Hernández, protagonist of the documentary who died on October 26 without seeing finished the recording of this audiovisual production.
To the projection of Pink Triangles, carried out in the Tenerife Auditorium, in addition to the entities of the LGBTIQ + collective and municipal, island and regional representatives, other people who were protagonists in the filming, such as the rights activist LGBTIQ +, Carla Antonelli and the MEP and former socialist minister, Juan Fernando López Aguilar.
A work by La Mirilla
He has also participated in the recording, which has been made by La Mirilla Audiovisual under the direction of Borja Lynch, the former minister and former president of the Canary Islands Government, Jerónimo Saavedra. The documentary highlights the work of the prominent political leader on a personal level from their respective spheres, who “has known how to take a step forward and lead a change in the perception that society has of the LGBTIQ + collective”, as praised in a press release .
Nauzet Gugliotta, CEO of Diversity of the Cabildo de Tenerife, recalled that this audiovisual piece narrates the testimony of women who during the dictatorship fought to conquer their rights. What’s more, the recording does not look at the trans collective from the condition of victim. It approaches its achievements in terms of inclusion from a perspective of struggle and courage, recognizes the insular responsibility. Gugliotta also values that this project seeks to be a recognition of trans women who have unintentionally been an example for current generations since many even gave their lives so that other people could achieve happiness.
The area of Citizen Participation and Diversity is already working for next year in the planning of different actions that allow the dissemination of this documentary that was presented yesterday and foresees initiatives that include its viewing by the educational network of Tenerife, along with other actions that can be developed outside the island in order to fully include the trans community.
